God

The emissaries and the brothers throughout Y’hudah heard that the Goyim had received the word of God;

But the voice spoke again from heaven: ‘Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.’

Therefore, if God gave them the same gift as he gave us after we had come to put our trust in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I to stand in God’s way?”

On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, “This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t’shuvah and have life!”

On arriving and seeing for himself the grace of God at work, he was glad; and he encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with their whole hearts;

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.

At once, because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of Adonai struck him down. He was eaten away by worms and died.

But the word of the Lord went on growing and being multiplied.

After landing in Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues, with Yochanan (Mark) as an assistant;

He had attached himself to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. Now the governor had called for Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul and was anxious to hear the message about God;

So Sha’ul stood, motioned with his hand, and said: “Men of Isra’el and God-fearers, listen!

The God of this people Isra’el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Sha’ul Ben-Kish, a man from the tribe of Binyamin. After forty years,

God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’

“In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra’el from this man’s descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.

“Brothers! — sons of Avraham and those among you who are ‘God-fearers’! It is to us that the message of this deliverance has been sent!

“But God raised him from the dead!

he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’

And as for his raising him up from the dead, to return to decay no more, he said, ‘I will give the holy and trustworthy things of David to you.’

This is explained elsewhere: ‘You will not let your Holy One see decay.’

For David did indeed serve God’s purposes in his own generation; but after that, he died, was buried with his fathers and did see decay.

However, the one God raised up did not see decay.

‘You mockers! Look, and marvel, and die! For in your own time, I am doing a work that you simply will not believe, even if someone explains it to you!’ ”

When the synagogue meeting broke up, many of the born Jews and devout proselytes followed Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba, who spoke with them and urged them to keep holding fast to the love and kindness of God.

The next Shabbat, nearly the whole city gathered together to hear the message about the Lord;